Hit-and-run suspect charged with attempted murder

EVANSVILLE - Vanderburgh County Sheriff's deputies have charged Jacob L. Higgins, 24, of Evansville with attempted murder after a fight outside a West Side bar early Sunday. Higgins is accused of using his car to run down a man and then dragging him under the vehicle for a quarter mile.

He has been preliminary charged with a Class A felony charge of attempted murder along with criminal recklessness and a hit-and-run with serious injury, both Class D felonies. He is currently being held without bail in Vanderburgh County Jail.

According to the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office, Higgins and two other unidentified people were at Show Me's-West on Pearl Drive when they began arguing with a group of people that included Alexander J. Marshall, 21, of Evansville, and Daniel W. Jordan, 20, of Evansville. The argument turned into a physical altercation and spread across the street into the AMC Theater parking lot, according to police.

At some point during the fight, police say rocks were thrown at Higgins' vehicle and that an unidentified man pulled a gun on him. Higgins, according to the sheriff's report, then hit Jordan and Marshall with his Camaro, dragging Marshall for a quarter mile, before fleeing.

Sunday afternoon, while police were searching for Higgins, he posted a message to his friends and family on Facebook: "I just want to say I love u and thanks for everything if worst comes to worst I'll see u on the other side things don't always go the right way love u guys sry. Dad ur the best."